women in medicine

Sarah Gertrude Banks
Summer 2019

In Her Own Right

BY KATIE VLOET

Sarah Gertrude Banks, champion of women’s suffrage and health care

Sexual Harassment in Medicine: #MeToo
Spring 2018

Sexual Harassment in Medicine: #MeToo

BY RESHMA JAGSI, M.D., D.PHIL.

One faculty’s response to the #MeToo movement

ON A MISSION Mary Hancock McLean (M.D. 1883) became a champion for those in need, both in her native St. Louis and around the world. The newspaper clip below highlights one of her overseas missions: “Here in St. Louis, a cultured woman has abandoned an income of $10,000 a year and the comforts and enjoyments of the land of her birth to become a missionary in China.”
Spring 2018

Petticoat Junction

BY LARA ZIELIN

Alumna Mary Hancock McLean, pioneering female surgeon